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Court rejects power co-op’s appeal for $7 million tax refund
The Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday rebuffed arguments by the Arizona Electric Power Cooperative that it need not pay the state's use tax on coal and natural gas it purchases from out-of-state suppliers.
Ex-Maricopa County sheriff wants his campaign talk banned at trial
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants to block campaign statements at his contempt of court trial.
Maricopa County JP faces ethics charges over campaign
A Maricopa County justice of the peace for a precinct in north Phoenix is accused of violating state ethics rules during his 2016 election campaign.
Federal court finds no child endangered by Indian adoption law
A federal judge threw out a bid March 16 to void federal laws that challengers claim is racist because it places the desires and rights of Native American tribes over the constitutionally protected best interests of children.
Arizona high court denies challenge to death penalty law
The Arizona Supreme Court is scheduled to rule Wednesday on the automatic appeal of an inmate facing Arizona death sentences for two killings as well as life terms for two Idaho killings.
Supreme Court upholds minimum wage law
The Arizona Supreme Court has unanimously ruled against a challenge to a voter-approved hike in the state’s minimum wage.
Arpaio to take second try at disqualifying judge from racial profiling case
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to resume his bid to get a federal judge disqualified from a racial profiling case even though the lawman has been out of office for more than two months.
U.S. Supreme Court brings down gavel on O’Connor workout class
While the first female justice never managed to persuade her fellow justices to join her regularly, her workout class became a court fixture and a hit with a devoted group of women who live in the court's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
AZ Supreme Court skeptical of minimum wage challenger arguments
Arizona’s Supreme Court justices spent time March 9 imagining a world in which the state’s voters may never get to pass laws by the ballot again.
Arizona Supreme Court limits DUI law on taking blood samples
The Arizona Supreme Court says police can't have blood samples taken from an unconscious DUI suspect without having a search warrant or facing urgent circumstances.
High Court to hear minimum wage challenge
The state's business community will take its last-ditch effort to kill a voter-approved minimum wage hike to the Arizona Supreme Court Thursday.
Attorney with criminal record to serve as special prosecutor
Gary Husk, a lawyer with a criminal record who also figured in a scandal involving the Fiesta Bowl has been selected to serve as a special prosecutor in two death-penalty homicide cases in Pinal County.
